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Postscript
1928-2017
By BRIAN MCDONALD
December 28, 2017
The first time I read Jimmy Breslin, I was lying on my stomach on a living room rug, the Sunday paper spread in front of me. I was maybe 10. I knew who he was before I …

Jimmy Breslin, an award-winning New York Daily News columnist celebrated for his insights into the lives of everyday New Yorkers, died Sunday, the outlet confirmed. He was 88.
He had been recovering from pneumonia, his wife Ronnie Eldridge, a former New …

WASHINGTON — The gravedigger doesn’t have any reason to lie to you.
If the grave is deep enough and wide enough, that’s all that matters. The lies can be told by the shiny casket going into the dirt, by the funeral parlor salesman who talked the grieving …

Mayor de Blasio renamed a Midtown street Tuesday after Jimmy Breslin — a journalist who relentlessly asked questions — and then took off without taking questions from the press.
“He didn't want to focus on the famous and the powerful — he wanted to …

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Some would say legendary newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin knew New York City streets better than anyone, and now a street has been named after him.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and family members of the late columnist unveiled “Jimmy …

Jimmy Breslin, an award-winning New York Daily News columnist celebrated for his insights into the lives of everyday New Yorkers, died Sunday, the outlet confirmed. He was 88.
He had been recovering from pneumonia, his wife Ronnie Eldridge, a former New …

While we like to see ourselves in winners – hitting a home run, winning that big promotion or marrying the handsomest man in town – we know in our heart of hearts that we are losers, too. At least some of the time. We don’t set out to stumble but we fall …

Jimmy Breslin, long the gruff and rumpled king of streetwise New York newspaper columnists, a Pulitzer Prize winner whose muscular, unadorned prose pummeled the venal, deflated the pompous and gave voice to ordinary city-dwellers for decades, died March …